Oxford LibGuides: Legal history: England & common law tradition: Business companies & corporations

Development of business enterprizes

The first book looks at the phenomenon in Europe generally

A History of Corporate Finance by Jonathan Barron Baskin; Paul J. Miranti
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780521555142
Publication Date: 1997
Print copy in the Bodleian SSL HG4017.BAS

The following look more specifically at the history within the British Isles

Turner: The development of English company law before 1900
Open Access By John D Turner, (2017) QUCEH Working Paper Series, No. 2017-01,

Select charters of trading companies, A.D. 1530-1707 by ed. Cecil T. Carr.
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
Publication Date: (1913) Selden Society v.28
Print copy is at Legal Hist S464.4a
The New River: a Legal History by Bernard Rudden
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780198254973
Publication Date: 1985
Print copy is at Legal Hist R914a

The constitution and finance of English, Scottish and Irish joint-stock companies to 1720 Requires Oxford SSO for remote access. (3v, 1910-1912) Available electronically via Making of Modern Law.

The English business company after the Bubble act, 1720-1800 by By Armand Budington DuBois
Call Number: KN261.DUB 1938
ISBN: 0374923620
Publication Date: 1938
(1938)
The historical foundations of modern company law by RR Formoy
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
Publication Date: 1923
Print copy is at Legal Hist F726
The history of corporate finance : the development of Anglo-American securities markets, laws, and financial practices, theories and laws by edited by Robert E. Wright ; advisory editor Richard Sylla
Call Number: Order from Bookstack via ASR
ISBN: 1851967494
Publication Date: 2003
6 volumes v.1 Developement of Securities Markets -- v.2 Public Policy -- v.3 Limited Liability -- v.4 Corporate Finance in Practice -- v.5 Corporate Finance in Theory -- v.6 Corporate Finance in Theory, Index.
Industrializing English law : entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844 by Ron Harris.
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 0521662753
Publication Date: 2000
Print copy is in HFL Upper Gladstone Link KD2049 HAR 2000
One hundred years of limited liability companies in England. by Lionel Leonard Cohen
Call Number: KN265.4.COH 1957
Publication Date: 1957
The Oxford history of the laws of England volume XII 1820-1914 Private Law by Cornish, William
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 0199239754
Publication Date: 2010
Print copy is at Legal Hist O98q/12.
Summary of Content
PT ONE: Property Stuart Anderson 1
PT TWO: Contract Michael Lobban 295
PT THREE: Commercial Law Michael Lobban 611

PART FOUR:
TORT

Michael Lobban 877

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